No Car Yet...Big shopping weekend
So as of yesterday, I was in talks with a few people regarding some pretty sweet looking BMW Z3 Coupes that were up for sale, but after talking to Scott, and thinking about it for a little bit, I’ve decided against it. Why you ask? Two words…sub frame. Well, that may actually be only a single word, but it doesn’t matter. The fact of the matter is that model of car is a ticking time bomb which at any point could cost me $2000-$3000 to fix, and that isn’t something that I’m really interested in getting into. I feel like I would be much happier with a speedy Honda S2000 that will be reliable and I will be able to run into the ground. I figure that for the same price, I can get myself an S2000 of the same year and mileage. Granted, it’s a tiny convertible, so that’s not ideal in terms of doing a whole lot, but I figure that whatever Melissa gets will be something a bit more utilitarian, even if she ends up getting a Wrangler.
Who knows, maybe I’ll be the one to get something utilitarian. I am going to be looking at a few S2000’s over the weekend along with some BMW 540i’s. We’ll see. Those two cars are at total opposite ends of the spectrum, but they both have an appeal to me, so we’ll see. I think that I could get a pretty nice BMW 5 Series for the cost of the S2000 and it’d be a blast to drive too, so we’ll see.
Today is perhaps the most boring day that I have had at work in a long long time. The code freeze for our latest production build was taken yesterday, so there’s really nothing for us to do in terms of development, so we’re really just sitting around today. I think that next week I am going to start to work on my POV during work. There have been more and more discussions about Pentaho and how that’s working into the thoughts of clients. There may even be an upcoming opportunity for me to get involved with Pentaho implementations. It certainly would be an interesting experience if that were to happen…frustrating and interesting. I won’t really find out what’s going to happen with that for another few weeks though.
Anyway, tonight is the company Christmas party, and seeing as how I’m going to be driving, it’ll keep me in check. I am looking forward to it as Melissa will be coming as my guest of honor. Turns out that the IT people that we work with here at the client site are going to be busy tonight, implementing the release, but I’ve already mentioned that I won’t be available tonight. Oh well. I’ll be rolling off this project shortly anyway, so it’s not as though it really matters. Anyway, I need to go and book a plane flight to NY for Christmas.